Citations:muffiny

English citations of muffiny

Adjective: "resembling or characteristic of a muffin"

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• 1861, "American Hotels and American Food", Temple Bar, June 1861:

  Lean and sallow creatures, — planters and judges, fragile beauties, and quakerly matrons, — what tremendous inroads they make on the spongy steaming bread and the hot muffiny cakes!

• 1981, Chester Krone, Blood Wrath, Playboy Paperbacks (1981), →ISBN, page 176:

  […] touched as if by accident the pubescent nipples of muffiny breasts too small to be encased in the top half of her bathing suit, pinched the smooth, dimpled bottom…

• 2001, Simon Gray, Enter a Fox, Granta Books (2005), →ISBN, page 118:

  When she came back she was carrying a tray of coffee and a muffiny thing.

• 2001, Jeffrey Thomas, "Elephants Weep", in Whispers and Shadows (ed. Jack Fisher), Prime (2001), →ISBN, page 172:

  She smelled like a granny, mildewed and muffiny.

• 2007, Madeleine Blais, Uphill Walkers: Memoir of a Family, Grove Press (2007), →ISBN, pages 85-86:

  Irish faces tend to be either like hers, all lines and angles, or round and muffiny, circle upon circle.

• 2010, Daniel Pinkwater, Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children (2010), →ISBN, page 104:

  Of course, it could, and was—a sweet muffiny smell, the smell you would get if you opened a bag of muffins and stuck your nose in.

• 2013, Dennis Mahoney, Fellow Mortals, Farrar, Starus and Giroux (2013), →ISBN, page 132:

  But the melody's persisted in their heads, especially since Henry keeps forgetting not to hum, and it's nostalgically entwined with everything around them, from the muffiny aroma of bakery to the little blue turkey on the box of Bell's seasoning.